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Colorado Shabbaton: “Best Shabbos of My Life”

Children of participating Shluchim at the Western regional Kinus this past Shabbos enjoyed a special program just for them, arranged by MyShliach of Chabad House HQ (merkos suite 302) in conjunction with Chabad of Colorado. The program was just what the boys need to increase their pride and confidence, and give the young Shluchim a boost of Chassidishkeit.

Video: 5747 – Shavuos with the Rabbe

In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: The Rebbe distributes wine from his ‘Kos Shel Bracha’ at the conclusion of Shavuos. Cantor Tzvi Hirsh Tzatzkis sings a song he composed honoring the Rebbe’s call in 1987 to build housing in Jerusalem. 7 Sivan, 5747 · June 4, 1987.

Gallery: Students Explore the Holy Land with ‘IsraeLinks’

Photos by Berale Shainer

The thought of spending your summer vacation studying and learning is something almost any college student would pass on. Yet for a select group of 80 university students, this is exactly their itinerary.

NYC to Use Phone Data to Track Public Services

NY Times

When New Yorkers head underground, they cannot always be sure of what awaits them. The city’s subway system can be mysterious, with daily delays resulting from minor emergencies, track work and other events in the tunnels that riders know they will never truly understand.

Vacaville Valedictorian’s Speech Saved

Contra Costa Times

Vacaville High School Valedictorian Carolyn Fine is observing the Jewish holiday of Shavuot on graduation day, and will not be using electricity. Not only will she be walking to the ceremony, her speech is prerecorded and will be played during the event. Photo: Rick Roach, The Reporter.

In observance of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, 18-year-old Carolyn Fine will not use electricity, even that which powers the microphone. Nor will she ride in a car to her graduation; instead, she’ll walk to the ceremony.

Confirmed: Dead Pakistani Al-Qaeda Operative Deliberately Targeted Indian Chabad Houses

Indian Express

Kashmiri, according to investigators, was responsible for ordering attacks on Chabad Houses in India.

The letter rogatory sent to Pakistan in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack has described Ilyas Kashmiri as one of the accused behind the attack who was planning more such attacks on India. Kashmiri was reported to have been killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region. Many believed that Kashmiri was going to be the new face of al-Qaeda after Osama’s death.

Video: From Sinai to Cyberspace

In honor of Shavuot, JLI and TorahCafe.com are proud to bring you our Shavuot Webcast entitled: From Sinai to Cyberspace. With an introductory montage of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks and Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, From Sinai to Cyberspace is a perfect piece to share with your friends and family this Shavuot to offer them a fresh look with unique approaches to how they can bring a little bit more Torah into their lives.

Historic Ukrainian Wedding Pairs Soviet Dissidents’ Great-Grandchildren

A Jewish wedding underway in Dnepropetrovsk is uniting two families whose patriarchs were once considered dissidents by the very government that now embraces the religious revival taking place throughout Ukraine’s third-largest city.